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Properties and Methods of the "session" Object

This section describes properties and methods supported by the 'session' object provided by the ASP programming interface at run-time.

As mentioned in previous tutorials, ASP programming interface provide a built-in run-time object called "session", which holds information and methods common to all ASP pages requested from a single user.

The "session" object supports these properties and methods:

  • Contents: A collection object acting as a cache for different ASP pages to share information. Since "Contents" is the default collection, we write 'session.Contents("myVar")' as 'session("myVar")'.
  • Abandon(): A method to destroy the current session.
  • SessionID: A read only property to return the id of the current session.
  • TimeOut: A property to set timeout period on this session.
  • OnStart(): An event handler to be called when the first HTTP request comes from a new user.
  • OnEnd(): An event handler to be called the session is abandoned or timed out.

Last update: 2002.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 ASP (Active Server Pages) Introduction

 IIS (Internet Information Services) 5.0

 MS Script Debugger

 VBScript Language

 ASP Built-in Run-time Objects

ASP Session

 What Is Session?

Properties and Methods of the "session" Object

 Passing Values between Pages

 HTTP Communication Level Debugging

 HTTP Communication Log Example

 Creating and Managing Cookies

 Managing Sessions with and without Cookies

 scrrun.dll - Scripting Runtime DLL

 Managing Response Header Lines

 Calculation Speed and Response Time

 ADO (ActiveX Data Object) DLL

 Working with MS Access Database

 Guest Book Application Example

 References

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Properties and Methods of the "session" Object